Get paid for getting your UID now

BANGALORE: Get paid for getting your unique ID ( UID) now. To push up enrolment in the Aadhaar project, the state government will shell out Rs 100 to every poor pensioner and job-seeker under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.

The government will directly transfer Rs 100 into the bank accounts of beneficiaries of social security schemes, pensioners, physically disabled and widows, and those of rural employment guarantee scheme who are below poverty line after they produce relevant documents as proof at the time of enrolment.

“The process of registering BPL residents involves cost for both the beneficiaries and the state government. Since the beneficiaries will be forgoing a part of their daily wage by taking time off work to enrol for Aadhaar we want to incentivise them. Social security pension and job guarantee schemes are among the six services we have shortlisted to be Aadhaar-enabled,” M N Vidyashankar, e-governance principal secretary, told TOI.

Centre for e-governance, the nodal agency to implement Aadhaar in Karnataka, will tie up with the departments of revenue and rural development and panchayat raj to work out the modalities. Besides demographic and biometric information, Karnataka will garner additional details from residents on seven services during enrolment.

To integrate UID numbers with various services offered, Karnataka Resident Data Hub will be set up in Bangalore. UID numbers will be seeded into various databases of departments providing welfare schemes to enable efficient delivery, tracking of services and address pilferage.

THE SERVICES TO BE LINKED WITH AADHAAR

Apart from Know Your Resident (KYR) info, Karnataka will collect additional info for KYR+ for select services. Residents seeking UID will have to furnish following KYR+ information.
Social security pension (sanction number and money order number).
Ration card number.
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme card number.
Bond number in Bhagyalakshmi scheme (details of children).
IP pump set details.
Passbook number in milk cooperative society.
Customer card number for LPG connection.

A multi-purpose data centre opens

Ahost of e-governance initiatives such as unique ID, registration, transport, municipal administration and eprocurement have been brought under a single umbrella. The Rs 57-crore data centre designed to meet government requirements for the next decade was set up at Vikasa Soudha on Thursday. The centre will offer latest technologies, including virtualization and provide servers on demand to government departments.